New world poetics [electronic resource] : nature and the adamic imagination of Whitman, Neruda, and Walcott / George B. Handley.
By: Handley, George B.
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BookPublisher: Athens, Ga. : University of Georgia Press, c2007Description: xi, 441 p. ; 24 cm.Subject(s): Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892 -- Criticism and interpretation | Neruda, Pablo, 1904-1973 -- Criticism and interpretation | Walcott, Derek -- Criticism and interpretation | American poetry -- 19th century -- History and criticism | Chilean poetry -- 20th century -- History and criticism | English poetry -- 20th century -- History and criticism | Ecocriticism | Philosophy of nature in literature | Ecology in literature | Nature in literatureGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 811.009/36 Online resources: An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view Includes bibliographical references (p. 413-427) and index.
Ecology, the New World, and the "American" Adam -- A New World poetics -- reading Whitman in the New World -- Nature's last chemistry in Leaves of grass -- Natural history as autobiography -- Hemispheric history as natural history -- The muse of (natural) history -- Impressionism in the New World -- Death, regeneration, and the prospect of extinction.
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